What spoiled the effect of this concession was the emotional
bitterness of General Hertzog's speech to the Assembly. He reiterated his intention to refuse alio. lutely to let the Union Jack occupy a quarter of the flag and to force the Bill through in its present form He declared that behind the desire of British South Africans to make the Union Jack more prominent in the design was the wish " to dominate South Africa. Yet British South Africans—at all events, all the reason- able ones—merely want to prove that they arc South Africans equally with the Dutch. The Cape Too correspondent of the Times says that race feeling has become more bitter than at - any time since the peace of Vereeniging. There is new hope, however, ill 3 Labour amendment. The sense is not clear, but if the amendment means that the Union Jack is always to be flown in company with the new national flag a settlement is likely. * *
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